成功需要勤奋英语(实用20篇)

Success in Life

Success means different things for different people. Some may equate it with money, some with work and still some with ohter. For me, it means fulfilling ones dreams. Whatever your dreams are, you have a goal there and then focus all your attention on it. Dreams bring you hope and happiness. May be you cry, sweat, complain or even curse, but the joy of harvesting makes you forget all the pains and troubles you have gone through. So an old proverb says that the sweetest fruit is one that has undergone the bitterest ordeal.There are several keys to success. First, your goal must be practical and practicable. If you set your goal too high, maybe that you will never attain it. Next, you have to make a plan of doing it. Since the dream is quite tough, you need to be hard, Even if you meet with some difficulties, just take them in your stride. You can always tell yourself that there is nothing about. With this will and determination, success is sure to wait for you at the end of the tunnel!

成功对于不同的人来说意味着不同的东西。有些人可能把它等同于钱、工作和一些其他。对我来说,这意味着实现你的梦想。无论你的梦想,你有一个目标,然后集中所有你的注意力。梦想为你带来希望和快乐。而努力奋斗的过程中,你哭泣,汗水,抱怨,但收获的快乐使你忘记所有的痛苦和麻烦您已经办完。所以一个老有句谚语说,最甜的果是经历了最苦的折磨有几个钥匙成功。首先,你的目标必须是现实的,是可行的。如果你把你的目标过高,很有可能让你永远无法实现它。接下来,你有制订一个计划做到这一点。”你可以采取一定的措施来实现它。由于过程非常困难,你需要勤奋,耐心和坚持就是胜利。即使你遇到一些困难和挫折,就把它们在你前进的动力。你总是可以告诉你自己,没有什么逾越。这个的意愿和决心,成功一定会等着你在隧道的尽头!

我考上大学了，我考上大学了!”听，这是多么喜悦而又激动的呼喊声，那位被截肢的女孩韩智华的美梦终于成真了!她是一位多么可怜的女孩子，她家境贫寒，双手截肢，但这都泯灭不了她考大学的愿望，在她的人生道路上虽然一次次受到挫折，一次次经历失败，但她都站起来了。看完这部电影，回忆起主人公韩智华坎坷的经历与坚定不移的信念，让我感慨万分。

《隐形的翅膀》这部电影中最让我感动的就是韩智华自高奋勇报了全国女子游泳比赛，她天天都训练到很晚，晚上就复习书本上的内容常常不睡觉，在训练的中途智华的妈妈失踪了，但智华没有放弃，继续刻苦训练，最后在全国游泳比赛中勇夺金牌，并得到了参加残疾人奥运会的资格，同时拿到了期待已久的大学录取书。

和韩智华相比，我幸福多了，但在我身上缺少韩智华那种不屈不挠的奋斗精神，我们不是残疾人，不需要像韩智华那样付出许多许久的艰辛，但在我们成长的路上也会遇到一些挫折，一些困难，那韩智华就是我们的榜样，永不认输，因为我知道挫折过后是一片晴朗的天空，瞧，成功就在挫折背后向我们招手，成功就是在努力的路上，“成功就在努力的路上”!让我们记住这句话，向美好的明天走去。

没有一份成功是不需要努力就能达到的。我们要付出百分之百的努力才能渴求成功。成功，写在纸上只是两个字，但要想在生活中获得成功，是需要付出成千上万倍的努力的。

我也在生活中努力追求着成功。初三练习跑步的日子是我永远不能忘怀的。体育课上，我们训练800米，炙热的太阳照射我们每个人，每个人的额上都渗着汗水，亮晶晶的。一声哨响，哒哒的脚步声越来越快。我奋力地跑着，每当听到后面脚步声的逼近，我都会再使一点力，我的体质从小就不好，耐力更是不行。但是为了我能考上梦想的高中，我拼尽了全力去练习，只为了自己的梦想。我认为梦想是需要坚持和加倍努力的。

我在橙红的跑道上迈着越来越沉重的步伐。腿上就像灌上了铅一样，机械性的迈着一小步又一小步。每当我要坚持不下来的时候，我总是坚持着，想着再迈一小步就成功了。这样的想法支持着我的每一次练习和中考的体育考试。我冲刺不好，所以练习的时候我会在最后的时候拼命挥动双臂，然后练习冲刺效果。

终于成功的女神垂青于我。我喜欢这种感觉，并且我更深刻地认知了成功需要一万分的努力付出。成功从来不会凭空降临，也从来不会为难人，只要我们自己肯刻苦，肯努力，成功就离我们很近很近。

如果成功我们可以看的到希望，那我们不妨努力掂掂脚，也许我们就能够成功。成功的光芒固然美丽，但美丽的背后还有无尽的痛苦和付出。

成功的人们之所以能够成功，是因为他们有惊人的毅力，强大的心灵和不放弃的努力。每个追梦的人都需要努力追求，都需要经历痛苦才能走到成功的彼岸。我要与奋斗作伴。

成功的人令人羡慕，但背后的付出更是巨大的。我现在就是那默默无闻的，而我要通过坚持不懈的努力走向成功。

努力是成功的另一个 名词。

Last week, my English teacher gave us a task, she asked us to form a small group, each group was made up of five students, the groups need to do a research, it is about how much people know about foreign country. In my group, there are three girls and two boys, at first, we did not know what to do, then I suggested our group take the cooperated work. As I and the girl are good at writing paper, so the two of us decided to design the questions, and the other three students are so active, so they like to ask people the questions. The research went go so well, we finished it in two days, thanks to the teamwork, we did well on the task. The teacher praised my group, I have learned the importance of cooperation, since then, I will considerate other people’s feelings.

上周，我的英语老师给我们布置了一个任务，她叫我们组成一个小组，每个小组由五个学生组成，需要做一个调查，那是关于人们对西方国家了解多少。在我的小组里，有三个女生和两个男生，刚开始，我们不知道如何去做，然后我建议小组采取团队合作。由于我和一个女孩擅长写作，因此我们两个决定去设计问题，另外的三个同学很活跃，因此他们喜欢去人问题。调查进行得很顺利，我们在两天内就完成了，多亏了团队合作，我们的任务完成得很好。老师赞扬了我的团队，我已经学到了合作的重要性，从此以后，我会考虑别人的感受。

雄鹰从出生便开始坚持那追逐蓝天的梦,于是它成为翱翔于天际的霸者;种子从入土便开始坚持那渴望茁壮与强盛的梦,于是它终成为俯览大地的强者.

成功需要坚持,需要从一而终,需要你一点一滴的努力.

海瑞,这个大明王朝史上的一个特例.他特殊,亦是因为他坚持.他坚持自己的信仰,坚持自己的原则,不允许别人来打破.从出任官职时,当上级官员来巡视,所有人跪地相迎,而唯有他笔直站立,仅仅是稍一鞠躬.到后来的他不满皇帝荒.唐,成为历史上第一个公然在朝廷之上大骂皇帝之人.因为他的坚持,他造福于百姓,闻名于天下,时至今日仍被传颂.

在对手眼中他是一个极其乖僻,不合时宜的怪人,在百姓眼中,他又是极度廉洁,洁身自好的大清官.其实他有的,只是那份坚持,坚持心中的准则,坚定不移的做到为官清廉与造福人民.

在风雨飘摇的时代中,社会沉浸在黑暗与暴动的势力中.他怀揣着心中的理想,坚持救国救民的真理,化作"投枪与匕首"将封建社会狠狠地掷击.鲁迅,他从未改变内心的坚持,他希望正处于解救沦落中的中国和沦落中的百姓.从救死扶伤的医者,到轰动报坛的"危险人物",或许改革之路异常坎坷,或许背负着不为人知的压力与痛苦.可他知道,他必须坚持,他相信胜利的曙光就在眼前.

在这坎坷之路上鲁迅披荆斩棘,挥笔抗争.而他的努力并没有白费,他的坚持还有价值,他终成为新文化运动中影响最为深刻的人,被后人称为"民族魂".

还记得感动中国人物里的那个何祥美么?他坚持心中的信念,坚信自己能行.面对外国士兵对他的不屑一顾,用自己强劲的实力与精力,让对方刮目相看.他挑战身体的极限,他坚持让自己更好更强,成为了一名具备多栖作战能力的英雄.

他的坚持让他成为一名强者,成为我们中华民族的骄傲.

成功需要坚持,坚持心中的理想与信念,终有一天,我们将能一飞冲天!

从我升入初中到现在已经两年了，在这两年中我学到了不少知识，懂得了许多道理。

记得那时一个阳光明媚的早晨，爸爸带我到溜冰场学习溜冰。一进入场地，我便迫不及待地换上溜冰鞋，高兴地冲了上去。然而，由于过于心急，竟忘记了自己根本就不会溜冰。没走几步，就来了个仰面朝天。但我没有灰心，而是忍着疼痛站起来，继续向前滑去，我小心翼翼地移动着步伐，生怕再次摔倒。可是，这光滑的地面仿佛就是与我过不去，就在我放松警惕的时候，我的左脚一不小心刮倒了右脚，顿时，我惊慌失措，随着“碰”的一声，我再次重重地跌倒了地上。此时此刻，我有点感到绝望了。就在这时，我看到了远处的爸爸，他微笑着，不停地向我招手，从他的眼神中，我明白了，爸爸是在鼓励我。我仿佛听到了一个声音：相信自己，坚持下去。于是，我再次鼓起勇气，向前滑去。功夫不负有心人，经过我坚持不懈的努力，我终于学会了溜冰。

其实，做任何事情都如此，我们都应坚持。在坚持的过程中，我们还要经的起艰苦的磨练，正如诗中所说“不经一番寒彻骨，怎得梅花扑鼻香”。

记得初一刚入学时，我的英语成绩一直不好，老师也多次找我谈话，帮我分析原因。开始，我并不在意，直到期末考试时，我才真正感到了问题的严重性。我绞尽脑汁，思考着如何提高英语成绩。我为自己制定了新的学习计划，每天早晚学习英语，但是，一段时间后，成绩仍然没有提高，我感到非常苦恼。上初二后，新的英语老师告诉我，提高成绩的关键在于掌握学习方法，提高学习效率，更重要的是要大量的记忆英语词汇，朗读英语文章，做到熟能生巧。老师的教导使我茅塞顿开。在之后的学习中我总结了一套适合自己的高效的学习方法，增加词汇量和阅读量。最终，在我的刻苦努力下，英语成绩也上来了。可见，只有勤奋刻苦，才会有所收获。

记得有一年的高考作文是看图说话，画的一个人挖井，没等挖出水就换了位置，挖了多处也没有挖出水来。以此作文是告诫人们要有执着的精神和毅力，不能浅尝辄止，半途而废。

在生活中，有些人做事往往不能执着，常常朝三暮四，见异思迁，或者一曝十寒，五分钟热血，有的人不懂得行百里者半九十的道理，甚至为山九仞，功亏一篑。常常在最后时刻失去了耐心，放弃了执着。

我们都羡慕那些功成名就的人，向往得到他们那样的光环和掌声，但我们却往往没注意到他们背后的坚韧和执着。

事实上，任何成功者都有一个共同的特点，那就是执着。“只有功夫深，铁棒磨成针”，需要的是执着；“水滴石穿”靠的就是执着；愚公移山，女娲补天，夸父追日，精卫填海，那都是执着的结果。

荀子曰：“骐骥一跃，不能十步；驽马十驾，功在不舍。锲而舍之，朽木不折；锲而不舍，金石可镂。”这些讲的就是成功在于执着的道理。

六十多年的人生经历告诉我，无论做什么事情都需要执着。孝敬父母要执着，家庭和睦要执着，热爱学习要执着，对待工作要执着，朋友相处要执着，运动健身要执着，喜欢日记要执着，心胸豁达要执着。在我的一生中，似乎还没有不执着的事情，当然，有了缺点错误不能执着，不能死不悔改。

有傻瓜的地方才会发生奇迹

印度有一位知名的哲学家，气质高雅，因此成为很多女人的偶像。某天，一个女子来拜访他，她表达了爱慕之情后说：“错过我，你将再也找不到比我更爱你的女人了！”

哲学家虽然也很中意她，但仍习惯性地回答说：“容我再考虑考虑！”事后，哲学家用他一贯研究学问的精神，将结婚和不结婚的好处与坏处，分条罗列下来，结果发现好坏均等，究竟该如何抉择？他因此陷入了长期的苦恼之中。

最后，他终于得出一个结论──人若在面临抉择而无法取舍的时候，应该选择自己尚未经历过的那一个。不结婚的状况他是清楚的，但结婚后会是个怎样的情况，他还不知道。对！应该答应那个女人的请求。

哲学家来到女人的家中，问她的父亲：“你的女儿呢？请你告诉她，我考虑清楚了，我决定娶她为妻！”

女人的父亲冷冷地回答：“你来晚了十年，我女儿现在已经是三个孩子的妈了！”

哲学家听了，整个人几乎崩溃，他万万没有想到，他向来引以为傲的精明头脑，最后换来的竟然是一场悔恨。此后，哲学家抑郁成疾，临死前，他将自己所有的著作丢入火堆，只留下了一段对人生的批注

如果将人生一分为二，前半段的人生哲学是“不犹豫”，后半段的人生哲学是“不后悔”。哲学家死之前终于明白，聪明的狐狸为什么常常落不到好下场了，因为他们经常“聪明反被聪明误”。

聪明人往往忘记了高贵的头颅也是由双脚来带动的，他们太自负太依赖于自己的思想，往往因此忽略了其他的因素，比如行动，比如他人。有首耳熟能详的老歌叫“傻瓜力量大”，适当的“傻”如同恰到好处的“自卑”，那是一种美德，也是一种智慧。

如果漂流到一个荒岛，只能带三样东西，你会带什么？许多人回答：一棵柠檬树，一只鸭子，一个傻瓜。为什么不带聪明人而带傻瓜？因为聪明人会砍掉柠檬树，吃掉鸭子，甚至最后害了主人。只有傻瓜，才能执着地拼命努力，最后能种瓜得瓜。傻瓜是一种天分，有傻瓜的地方才会发生奇迹。

要把“聪明”转化为“智慧”

有句老话叫“知易行难”，懂得道理很容易，付诸行动却很难。聪明人喜欢“眉头一皱计上心来”的潇洒，但是，他们往往只限于“头脑风暴”，而不善于与人打交道，刚愎自用，结果聪明反被聪明误。

历史上的周瑜何等聪明，但结局却是悲剧。现代企业管理中，无数次商场上的起起落落，似乎都证明了这个朴素的真理：很多人，他们有着最聪明的头脑，有着最敏锐的商业嗅觉，一拍脑子，点子就来但是，有了这些素质的人，却往往不是最后的成功者。这是一个很奇怪的现象，但事实却真的如此。

有人这么界定“聪明”的含义一个人的智商高出普通人的正常值，这样的人就是我们生活中常说的聪明人。顺着这个逻辑，我们会发现很多成功的企业家并不绝顶聪明，相反，他们可能还曾是差生。

有个统计数字显示，他们中最多只有不超过10%的人智商超群，其余90%的智商绝对只是普通人水平。但是，他们成功了。我们或许还能够回想起中国企业界一些流星般的人物，他们嗅觉灵敏，脑筋活络，甚至可能是中国改革开放后企业界最聪明的一拨人。

比如说，他们能够在美国的“伟哥”尚未进入中国市场之前率先抢注中文商标并推出号称功能相似的产品，以此赢得市场轰动；他们能够迅速洞察中国消费者的心理，精心包装各种概念性的保健产品并迅速形成市场规模，然后又迅速消失；他们也能够在中央电视台的广告招标会上豪情万丈，一掷亿金时至今日，这些聪明人又在哪里？有的失败了，有的很失意。

聪明人机会是很多的，可是往往定力不够，最后一个个栽倒在某个美丽的陷阱里。他们很容易自负、浮躁、急于求成，在变来变去中，连自己也搞不清是怎么回事了。

聪明本不是坏东西，但它可能坏事，它只是初步的，我们必须通过实践去把聪明转变成智慧，因为智慧而促进实践，在智慧的基础上行动，才能够事半功倍。转变的前提是，你必须身体力行才可以。

成功需要阿甘精神

电影《阿甘正传》讲述了一个名叫阿甘的美国青年的故事，他的智商只有75，进小学都困难，但是，他几乎做什么都成功：长跑、打乒乓球、捕虾，甚至爱情，最后，他成为一名成功的企业家，而比他聪明的同学、战友却活得并不成功。这是对聪明的一种嘲弄。

阿甘常爱说的一句话是：“我妈妈说，要将上帝给你的恩赐发挥到极限。”这部电影表达了美国人的一种成功理念：

成功就是将个人的潜能发挥到极限。

个人素质主要包括形体素质、智商、情商(心理素质)三个部分。现代心理学研究表明,在决定一个人成功的诸多要素中，居核心与决定地位的是情商，智商只是必要条件而不是充分条件。所以我们在生活中常常看见，学历不高的人总是当上了老板，而高学历的人往往只是打工者。具备高学历并不一定就能成功，它只是具备了成功的可能性而已。

阿甘的成功，从某种意义上说，拜赐于他的轻度弱智、不懂得计算输赢得失。他唯一做到的就是简单坚持，认真地做、傻傻地执行。很多时候企业里缺的不是“聪明人”，而是这样的“傻子”。

聪明人遇到问题总是怨公司、骂上司，算计着要有一分收获才肯一分耕耘，没多少收获便不肯耕耘了。每个决策，每个命令，都要看自己有多少得益，有多少损失，如果不划算，便“上有政策，下有对策”。

殊不知，很多事情前期是十分耕耘，三分收获，后期才是三分耕耘，十分收获。阿甘并不是真的愚者，真的愚者是欺负他的人。他成功的方法只有一个那就是不计成本的努力。他成功的秘诀就在于他的“单纯”或者说“执着”。

我们常以智商来决定一个人聪明与否，但再聪明的人也有其短，再笨的人也有一长，例如阿甘虽然智商低，可他跑得很快、会吹口琴、会打桌球、会养虾，可见凡事都是学习而来的，只要肯花功夫学，一定能在某一领域有所发挥。

人生常常面临许多选择，我们在摸索中学习到许多可贵的经验，并且吸收了别人累积的智能，智能才是带领我们走向幸福人生的关键，这与智商无关。我们也许都比阿甘聪明，可是我们都不能够专注于一件事上，虽然做了很多事，却常常失败。阿甘知道自己的不足，所以比别人专心，结果他成功了。

话说回来，聪明不是错，更不是罪，关键是要聪明地利用好自己的聪明，这样，才能为自己的人生锦上添花，而不会让它成为美丽的包袱。

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努力是水，浇灌成功之花;努力是灯，照亮人生之路，努力是桥，塔起理想的彼岸。只有勤劳和不懈的努力，才会成功。以下是小编为大家整理的关于成功需要努力800字作文，给大家作为参考，欢迎阅读!

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这个寒假里，我读了一份让我感受很深的报纸，那就是语文报寒假版，它让我知道了只有努力才能创造成功。

语文报中我感受最深的就是《网上超市》这一栏目。其中各位运动明星说的话令我非常感动。

姚明说：“我不知到需要多少压力，多少才适合呢?现在没有人可以告诉，但我知道需要一些压力来推动我前进。”从这句话可以看出姚明每天都用压力让自己进步，用努力来弥补自己的不足。

刘翔说：“我顽强、有韧劲、不怕困难。这些好品质会使我在退役后也成为一个对国家有用的人。”正因为刘翔有这种不怕困难、能够不懈努力的精神，所以他才能够在比赛中获胜，为国家争光。

还有一篇关于刘翔过中秋节文章，它讲述了刘翔在中秋节的时候，不顾自己的身体疲劳、伤痛以及对妈妈的思念，放弃回家和家人一起渡过节日，而仍然坚持在训练场上不断地努力练习，他的妈妈非常关心他的身体，可他自己却毫不在乎，晚上12点了，还在操场上一圈一圈的跑着。他就是以这种不懈努力的精神才能获得金牌。

其实在我们的生活中，每一个成功者的背后都洒满了不懈努力的汗水。他们都踩着一路的艰辛，一步一步地走出了一条成功的道路，只有努力才能够创造一个辉煌的成功。记得我以前做什么都很不努力，总想着天上掉下一个大馅饼，让我轻而易举地获得成功，但这是不可能的。妈妈告诉我，只有通过自己不懈地努力才会能品尝到成功甜美的滋味，懒惰的人，意志不坚定的人，成功只会离他越来越远。越是觉得没有把握做好的事，越要努力尝试着做，坚持着做，才会有做好的可能。有一次妈妈要我学骑单车，可我却不想学，怕累、怕摔倒、怕痛，不愿意认真、努力地学，所以一骑上去就摔了下来。后来我下定决心努力学好，经过一个晚上的努力，经过无数次的摔倒，我终于战胜了困难，学会了骑单车。在这件事要我也认识到，其实困难也没有什么可怕的，只要你有决心打败它，它也许就是一个不堪一击的纸老虎，而且在打败它的过程中还有很多快乐。在生活中还有许许多多这样的事例，进一步的证明了只有努力才能成功，只要努力就能成功。

来吧!让我们用努力去迎接成功的到来吧!

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翻开历史的画卷，我们可以清楚地看到，古今中外的伟人名士，专家学者，他们成功的奥秘之一都是勤奋。

不是吗?我国著名的生物学家童第周，上中学时，他考试不及格，老师要让他留级，同学们笑他，他不悲观失望，从此发奋学习，最后取得了优异的成绩。出国留学时他又刻苦钻研，为中国争了光，成了世界著名的生物学家。还有连学都没上过的张海迪姐姐，身残志坚，勤奋学习，克服了健康人也难以克服的苦难，硬是攻克了几门外语。

古往今来，许多誉满全球的伟人，他们的每一项发明创造，每一次成功，都是要流下滴滴汗水，留下步步脚印的。他们的成功都是靠着自己的勤奋钻研而得来的。

成功的关键在于勤奋，勤能补拙是良训，一分辛劳一分才，只有勤奋才能取得成功。传说古希腊有一个叫德摩斯梯尼的演说家，因小时口吃，登台演讲时，声音含混，发音不准，常常被雄辩的对手压倒。可是他气不馁，心不灰，为克服这个弱点，战胜雄辩的对手，便每天口含石子面对大海朗诵，不管春夏秋冬，坚持五十年如一日，连爬山，跑步也边走边做演说，终于成为全希腊一个最有名气的演说家。这样的事例不正说明勤奋可以克服一切困难，战胜一切，从而取得成功吗?不是正告诉人们，一切事物都要勤奋吗?

鲁迅之所以渊博，正是因为他把别人喝咖啡的时间，都用来汲取精神养料。

李时珍的《本草纲目》的写成，正是由于他27个年头的跋山涉水，“访采四方”，“搜罗百代”的成果。

高尔基说过：“天才出于勤奋”。卡莱尔也说过：“天才就是无止境地刻苦勤奋的努力”。这些名人的经验之谈告诉我们，只有勤奋，才能成功

物理学家牛顿;化学界的大师诺贝尔、门捷列夫;放射性元素的发现者居里夫人……他们之所以有这样伟大的成就，有一个重要的因素，就是由于他们都是勤奋学习，不耻下问，大胆实践，用于向失败挑战的人。而最后呢，他们胜利了，成功了。无数事实证明了这样一个真理：成功来自勤奋。只会不是自然的恩赐，而是勤奋的结果。

让我们大家以此共勉，勇勤奋去攀登智慧的巅峰，用知识的钥匙打开成功的大门!让我们永远记住：成功来自勤奋。

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——启示录：读冰心《繁星.春水》有感

一首首短小含蓄、富有哲理的现代诗歌，一次次爱的熏陶与感动，使我不知不觉中喜欢上了这本书。

在冰心“理想的人世间”里，“只有同情和爱恋”“只有互助与匡扶”。所以，母爱、童真和对自然的歌颂，就自然成了她诗的主旋律。

就像这首诗“万千的天使，要起来歌颂小孩子;小孩子!他细小的身躯你，含着伟大的灵魂。※ 弱小的草呵!骄傲些吧，只有你普遍的装点了世界。”

儿童是最纯真的，因而也最伟大，草儿是弱小的，世界的美貌却需它来装点。冰心的这类小诗正是表现了诗人的纯真，对真、善、美崇敬和坚强的自信心与奋斗精神。

有的诗表现出诗人真挚热烈的感情和有有教益的哲理的思考;有的表现出诗人独特的审美情趣;还有的突出了“冰心体”思想纯洁、文字典雅、带着一丝愁绪的独特风格。

其中，最让我感动的是《成功的花》这首诗：“成功的花，人们只惊羡她现时的明艳!然而当初她的芽儿，浸透了奋斗的泪泉，洒遍了牺牲的血雨。”冰心将自己从生活获得的新鲜感受，生动形象地表现出来：自然含蓄，又富于哲理，给我们以无尽的回味和思想的启迪。

今天，我正在做英语的阅读短文。我看着问题，在文章中寻找着答案。可那答案似乎在和我捉迷藏，怎么也看不见。我急得像热锅上的蚂蚁——团团转，满头大汗，不停地用脚尖点着地板。再看看这文章，句子不知，单词不晓，更是火上浇油。脑子里是一团糟，恨不得乱写一气。正在这时，似乎这朵花在我耳畔说话：“要想成功就需奋斗”。“是啊，不能浮躁啊!”于是，我定下心来，逐字逐句地看着，用老师教给我们的句型套用。不厌其烦的一遍遍地查字典。终于，我做了出来。

同时，这首诗也告诉了我们：不要只看到他人成功的一面，临渊羡鱼，自己也要拿出行动，铭记着“要想成功就需奋斗”，努力向成功进军，使自己也成为一颗耀眼的明星。

让我们好读书，读好书，快乐成长，散发出人生黄金时期的璀璨光芒。

LinHao, in face of so great a catastrophe, did not evade but gave his hands to hisclassmates. It was his confidence and calmness that gave others the secondlife. I am proud of him. To be honest, Lin Hao is my little hero in my heart.

BernardShaw has ever said a word. "Those who have confidence can transformsmallness into greatness and make mediocre things look beautiful. In anotherword, self-confidence is the first step to success. Thus, no matter when andwhat, we do not allow ourselves to be discouraged. Lin Haos experience tellsus that confidence is very important to us. It also reminds me of my ownexperience during the first year of senior middle school. After I entered seniorschool, I found it really hard for me to learn math well. There were so manyproblems which I didnt understand that I did badly in exams. Both my parentsand math teachers believed that I couldnt learn math well. One day I met adifficult problem which took me nearly an hour to work it out. Nonetheless，I realized that I was the onlyone in my class to work it out! That really built up my confidence in math.Finally I became very good at math and my math teacher was surprised by my progress.It was confidence that helped me overcome the difficulty.

Ifa person wants to be successful, the first thing to do is to get confidence, assuccess is the body of confidence.

失败是成功之母，但让失败变成成功之母的前提是要学会坚持。”这是《顶碗少年》这一课给我的启示。不光是这位少年，我也有失败的时候。

记得那年，小提琴杨老师来我家叫我拉小提琴。“哆咪啦哆”“糟了，最后一个哆我没拉好。”杨老师看了我一会，从他嘴里蹦出三个字：重新拉。于是我又从头拉起，本来以为这此可以过，可是这讨厌的“哆”我又拉跑了音。杨老师很生气。他看着我什么也不说。

我害怕了，我怕再拉错老师会说我;我怕再拉错老妈会凶我;我怕再拉错老爸会嘲笑我说：“亏你还说自己拉得好，我看你呀先吹了。”……我想试一下的信念战胜了恐惧。我鼓起最大的勇气问老师：“老师，我可以再试一次吗?”

结果是什么?结果就是我最后一起成功了。

通过这一次让我明白了一个道理成功离我们每一个人都不远，只要你肯努力，只要你肯坚持。你就会成为一个成功者。

在以后的岁月里，每当我遇到困难时，我老是会想起我拉琴的经历。不知怎么的，我每每想起的时候。我就一定会使出我全身的力气去坚持下去。最终取得成功。

让我们做一个学会坚持，学会不被失败打到的人吧!

俗话说：“一勤天下无难事，”这是很有道理的一句俗话啊！任何成功都是在勤奋的苦根上长出来的甜果，一个人若要成功，就必须要有勤奋作为前提。

我们做事情总希望得到成功，可结果往往事与愿违。他们找到的所谓原因是自己的天资差，其实不然。纵观世界的大发明家爱迪生，小时候上学被老师称为“智能低下的人”，只上了三个月的学就被迫离开了学校。但他并不因此而丧失信心，反而以坚强的意志勤奋学习，最后终于成为了举世闻名的大发明家。类似于这样的实例很多，都是由于勤奋而弥补了笨拙从而取得成功，古往今来举不胜举，由此可见，一个天资差的人，只要相信天才出于勤奋，勤奋在于自己的努力，你的付出就一定会有收获的。

另一些人在失败后，抱怨上天不主持公道，说自己不是干那事的料，其实这些都是我们的借口，梅兰芳年轻时去拜师，师傅说她一双死鱼眼睛，灰暗、呆滞、根本不是学戏的料，拒不收留，但她没有灰心，反而促使他更加勤奋。她喂鸽子，每天仰望天空，双眼紧跟着飞翔的鸽子，穷追不舍，她养金鱼，寻觅踪影。后来，梅兰芳那双眼睛变得如一汪清水，顾盼自如，终于成了著名的京戏大师。

由此可见，不管别人怎样评价自己，不管自己失败了多少次，只要在“勤奋”二字上下功夫，做事必定会成功的。成功属于勤奋的人，懒惰者永远不会在事业上有所建树，实践证明，任何事成功的取得都是与勤奋分不开的。所以我们现在要勤奋学习，将来必成为国家之栋梁。

2017年。冬天那是我们与团体操相遇的时候。初见它，我是十分抗拒的。说真的，当时我觉得幼稚难看，要把动作做得到位，也很困难。

那时正是冬天，周五、放学，下午的术课也都被团体操占去了。七年级的我们顶着凛冽的寒风，在操场上一练就是两个小时。做着被我们笑称为“猥琐”的动作，我感觉很不是滋味，甚至有些愤怒。我有点想放弃了。随着新动作的引入，团体操似乎也没有那么乏味了，大家的动作熟练了，效果好了，就有种自豪感。那种感觉很美好再累也拼一下吧。

转眼夏天来了，天气热了起来。这时我们被要求穿武士服了。重重的盔甲挂在我的身上，我感到很吃力，加上手里举着盾牌，我越发不轻松了。太阳无情的炙烤着大地，汗不住地往下流。我仍然不敢懈怠，冥冥之中的荣誉感，总是激励着我。看到大家越发整齐的动作，愈加响亮的呼声，拼一下有什么不值得？

演出的日子来了。我很紧张，我站第一排，生怕掉链子。就要出场了。武士帽把我刚长出来的青春痘割的生疼，我也懒得管了，心中一遍遍的重复动作。

“下一场节目。百战金甲，众志成城！”

这八个字像钉子一样钉在我的心里，给我十分大的冲击。

熟悉的音乐声响起，那鼓点十分鼓舞人心。所有的人都拿出了自己所有的力气呼喊着。我的鸡皮疙瘩起来了。那一刻，我的心燃起一股热血，仿佛我真的要上战场了。拼了，我心想。

我聚精会神的做动作，大家的动作前所未有的标准。一声声铿锵有力的呐喊回荡在蓝天下，向所有人证明着我们自己。半年，六个月，180多天！辛苦的排练画面历历在目，像放电影一样回荡在我脑海里，久久无法散去。

随着音乐的最高潮，我的心情更加澎湃。跑步声伴随着又一声呐喊，我很感动，一瞬间，竟控制不住自己，热泪盈眶…

我们的节目取得了非常大的成功。全都是那么多天努力的心血，这样一拼也值了。

成功固然不简单，面对困境时，我们应该拼搏，不断地拼搏，一点一点的积累，总有一天我们会重见光明。那些光，更加灿烂。

拼搏吧，少年！

拼搏一路，直到尽头。

梦想的尽头，有星光等候。

文学家说，勤奋是打开文学殿堂之门的一把钥匙；科学家说勤奋能使人聪明；而政治家说勤奋是实现理想的基石。众所周知，学习要靠勤奋刻苦。

学习需要勤奋，可想而知，一个不勤奋学习的人能成为伟人吗？也许能，但这个可能性无限接近于零。就像买彩票一样中五百万一样，中奖的几率是有的，但这个几率无限接近于零，而不勤奋学习就成为伟人这个几率就更小了。所以学习需要勤奋，也许有了勤奋，你还是成不了伟人，可你还是有成为伟人的机会，但没有勤奋，你便连这个机会也失去了。三国时代的诸葛孔明是一位上知天文，下晓地理的谋士。但就是这样才华横溢的伟人，在上学时，为了能够多上会课，利用老师听鸡鸣来判断下课时间的习惯，定点喂鸡，让鸡吃饱不叫，延迟了下课时间。不可谓是不勤奋了。古人尚且如此，现在的我们更应该勤奋学习，以求超越他们。就像毛主席说的一样，“俱往矣，数英雄人物，还看今朝。”经由我们的双手，勤奋学习，开创一个英才倍出的时代吧。

学习是唯一的途径，只有学习好了，学懂了，学精了，才能有所作为。而这些的前提就是怎么样学，怎样的学习方法铸就怎样的学习成与败。

中国的勤奋是可以追寻到古代的，作为一个中国人更应该发扬这良好的学习方法。但只光有好的学习方法，而不去运用、不去实践，是不行的；而单一的勤奋学习，不分白天黑夜捧着书读那迟早变成为“书呆子”。所以呀，好的学习方法，要学习休息两不误。而这学习嘛，要你在学习中不断探索不断总结，勤学就是要告诉我们学无止境，要有良好的学习态度，虚心求教。

套用一句，99%的勤奋+1%的汗水=成功！作文

许多人都会问我认为成功最需要什么，我会毫不犹豫的说：“是自信，一个人连自信都没了，他怎么还能成功呢？”自信，顾名思义，就是自己对自己有信心，每件成功的事背后，都少不了自信。

记得那是前一段时间发生的一件事，我在家里做奥赛题，可那道题特别难，我算了好几遍都没算出来，我想这道题我肯定算不出来，正准备看书上答案时，又一想，我这不是自己对自己失去信心吗？我这不是自己放弃自己吗？成功的背后需要自信和汗水，相信自己，我一定能行！又过了一会，经过冥思苦想，终于把这到题做出来了。

是啊！成功不是靠投机取巧，成功不是靠花言巧语，成功靠的是自信和辛苦的汗水呀！

两个人比赛，一个对自己充满信心，心里想的我能行！我一定能赢，另一个人对自己不抱希望，心里想着我如果输了该怎么办？你们说，他们两个谁能赢？答案是肯定的：第一个人一定赢，因为他对自己充满信心！

自信是成功的第一步，也是最重要的一步，如果这一步你走不好，那你将永远与成功擦肩而过！

成功这个词语我们并不陌生，生下来的第一声啼哭，第一次学会叫妈妈，第一次学会走路，某个层次上，这也是成功。可成功是怎么样来的？成功就是通过不懈的努力而得来的。可有一些人，却从不在乎成功，一直盲目的活着。

有一些人出门做生意，生意没做成，反而欠了一大笔债，只好回到家乡躲债，他们不知道什么叫做成功，失败在他们眼里也只是一个巨大的债务。他们从来也不知道什么叫做努力？他们自以为只要店开起来，就是一帆风顺了。其实，他们错了！成功的路上只有挫折和不懈努力，才是唯一的捷径。陡峭的路往往是通往成功的，而轻松的路恰恰是走向深渊的，只有经历挫折，才会感觉到成功的不易，才会得到想要的成功，也只有努力了才会知道成功的含义是什么。

人们常说，失败是成功之母。既然失败是成功之母，那就应该多努力，不怕惧怕失败，要谦虚，要善于总结失败的经验。其实成功的路上有许多宝贵的机会，可有些人却与机会擦肩而过。试想如果没有机会和努力，又怎样才能成功，成功之人是怎么样取得成功的？是怎样赢得所有人的尊重的？在我看来，只有努力努力，再努力才能获得自己想要的，所以为了我们能够成功，我们应该去把握住每一次可能成功的机会。

盲目的寻找，只会让自己变得无法让人相信。成功是靠努力，而不是靠盲目的寻找，因为这样是不会成功的。

保尔。柯察金是《钢铁是怎样炼成的》的主人公，是一名无产阶级战士。他曾当过童工，从小就在社会最底层饱受折磨和侮辱。后来在朱赫来的影响下，逐步走上革命道路。其后他经历了一系列的人生挑战，但无论战场上的搏杀，感情上的波折，还是工地上的磨炼，都没能使他倒下，反而使他更加坚强。即使在伤病无情地夺走他的健康，使他不得不卧在病榻上时，他仍然不向命运屈服，而是克服种种困难，拿起笔以顽强的毅力进行写作，以另一种方式实践着他生命的誓言。

飞人刘翔，是110米跨栏冠军。可是想成为冠军，哪有这么容易啊?一开始，他还小，训练的艰苦无法让人想象，但他坚持了下来。尽管辛苦，困难重重，但他总是做到最好。在2004年的雅典奥运会中，刘翔以1288的好成绩获得冠军并打破了纪录，也为我们中国赢得了一面金牌。可是在2008年的奥运会上，刘翔由于腿伤，未能参加比赛，尽管这样，中国人都能谅解他，相信再经过4年的努力，在英国的奥运会上，刘翔定能以优异的成绩为中国赢得金牌。

王羲之是我国著名的书法家。他曾经一天写成千上万个字，一天能把一缸子的清水都变成黑色。还记得有一次，他废寝忘食连吃饭都不记得，桌边上放着一盘热乎乎的馒头，已变得冷冰冰的。他便拿起一个冷冰冰的馒头往那墨汁上面蘸了蘸，然后津津有味地吃着。他忘我的精神使他成为了举世闻名的书法家。

我在小学学习排球，一开始觉得太苦了，整天打到5点多才能回家，出校门肯定是最后一个了。回家后的第一件事就是看自已的手，那只手是紫色的还透着青。晚上睡觉也睡不塌实，一双手放在哪儿都疼。所以我就产生了放弃的念头，然而在老师的鼓励下我又坚持了下来，我反复对自已说：“再也不能放弃，一定要坚持下去。”就这样，我坚持到最后，并且在比赛中获得了良好的成绩。

不经历风雨，怎能见彩虹呢?成功都是要靠自已的努力得来的。愿我们用辛勤的劳动，换来沉甸甸的果实。成功需要磨炼。

下面的材料旨在丰富学生在是非问题写作方面的思想和语言，考生在复习时可以先分类阅读这些篇章，然后尝试写相关方面的作文题。

对于素材中用黑体字的部分，特别建议你熟读，背诵，因为它们在语言和观点上都值得吸收。学习语言的人应该明白，表达能力和思想深度都靠日积月累，潜移默化。从某种意义上说，提高英语写作能力无捷径可走，你必须大段背诵英语文章才能逐渐形成语感和用英语进行表达的能力。这一关，没有任何人能代替你过。

因此，建议你下点苦功夫，把背单词的精神拿出来背诵文章。何况，并不是要求你背了之后永远牢记在心：你可以这个星期背，下个星期忘。这没有关系，相信你的大脑具有神奇的能力。背了工具箱里的文章后，你会惊讶的发现：I can think in English now！

1.?????? Proverbs

1. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that individuality is the key to success.

2. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.

3. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

4. The classroom--not the trench--is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

5. Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

6. It is the purpose of education to help us become autonomous, creative, inquiring people who have the will and intelligence to create our own destiny.

7. You see, real ongoing, lifelong education doesn’t answer questions; it provokes them.

8. People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

9.the most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

10. The essence of our efforts to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each as equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

11. A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

12. If you can read and don’, you are an illiterate by choice.

2. Damaging Research

A study by National Parent-Teacher Organization revealed that in the average American school, eighteen negatives are identified for every positive that is pointed out. The Wisconsin study revealed that when children enter the first grade, 80 percent of them feel pretty good themselves, but by the time they get to the sixth grade, only 10 percent of them have good self-images.

3. Education and Citizenship

An important aspect of education in the United States is the relationship between education and citizenship. Throughout its history this nation has emphasized public education as a means of transmitting democratic values, creating equality of opportunity, and preparing new generations of citizens to function in society. In addition, the schools have been expected to help shape society itself. During the 1950s, for example, efforts to combat racial segregation focused on the schools. Later, when the Soviet Union launched the first orbiting satellite, American schools and colleges came under intense pressure and were offered many incentives to improve their science and mathematics programs so that the nations would not fall behind the Soviet Union in scientific and technological capabilities.

Education is often viewed as a tool for solving social problems, especially social inequality. The schools, t is thought, can transform young people from vastly different backgrounds into competent, upwardly mobile adults. Yet these goals seem almost impossible to attain. In recent years, in fact, public education has been at the center of numerous controversies arising from the gap between the ideal and the reality. Part of the problem is that different groups in society have different have different expectations. Some feel that children should be taught basic job-related skills; still others believe education should not only prepare children to compete in society but also help them maintain their cultural identity (and, in the case of Hispanic children, their language). On the other hand, policymakers concerned with education emphasize the need to increase the level of student achievement and to improve parents in their children’s education.

Some reformers and critics have called attention to the need to link formal schooling with programs designed to address social problems. Sociologist Charles Moscos, for example, is a leader in the movement to expand programs like the Peace Corps, Vista, and Outward Bound into a system of voluntary national service. National service, as Moscos defines it, would entail “the full-time undertaking of public duties by young people whether as citizen soldiers or civilian servers-who are paid subsistence wages” and serve for at least one year. In return for this period of service, the volunteers would receive assistance in paying for college or other educational expenses.

Advocates of national service and school-to-work programs believe that education does not have to be confined to formal schooling. In devising strategies to provide opportunities for young people to serve their society, they emphasize the educational value of citizenship experiences gained outside the classroom. At this writing there is little indication that national service will become a new educational institution in the United States, although the concept is steadily gaining support among educators and social critics.

4. The Teacher’s Role

Given the undeniable importance of classroom experience, sociologists have done a considerable amount of research on what goes on in the classroom. Often they start from the premise that, along with the influence of peers, students’ experiences in the classroom are of central importance to their later development. One study examined the impact of a single first-grade teacher on her students’ subsequent adult status. The surprising results of this study have important implications. It is evident that good teachers can make a big difference in children’s lives, a fact that gives increased urgency to the need to improve the quality of primary-school teaching. The reforms carried out by educational leaders like James Comer suggest that when good teaching is combined with high levels of parental involvement the results can be even more dramatic.

Because the role of the teacher is to change the learner in some way, the teacher-student relationship is an important part of education. Sociologists have pointed out that this relationship is asymmetrical or unbalanced, with the teacher being in a position of authority and the student having little choice but to passively absorb the information provided by the teacher. In other words, in conventional classrooms there is little opportunity for the students to become actively involved in the learning process. On the other hand, students often develop strategies for undercutting the teacher’s authority: mentally withdrawing, interrupting, and the like. Hence, much current research assumes that students and teachers influence each other instead of assuming that the influence is always in a single direction.

5. Education Philosophy

For the past fifty years our schools have operated on the theories of John Dewey (1859-1953), an American educator and writer. Dewey believed hat the school’s job was to enhance the natural development of the growing child, rather than to pour information, for which the child had no context, into him or her. In the Dewey system, the child becomes the active agent in his own education, rather than a passive receptacle for facts.

Consequently, American schools are very enthusiastic about teaching “life skills” –logical thinking, analysis, creative problem--solving. The actual content of the lessons is secondary to the process, which is supposed to train the child to be able to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. Students and teachers both regard pure memorization as an uncreative and somewhat vulgar.

In addition to “life skills”, schools are assigned to solve the ever growing stoke of social problems. Racism, teenage pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, reckless driving, and are just a few of the modern problems that have appeared on the school curriculum.

This all contributes to a high degree of social awareness in American youngsters.

6. Student Life

To the students, the most notable difference between elementary school and the higher levels is that in junior high they start “changing classes”. This means that rather than spending the day in one classroom, they switch classrooms to meet their different teachers. This gives them three or four minutes between classes in the hallways, where a great deal of the important social action of high school traditionally takes place. Students have lockers in these hallways, around which thy congregate.

Society in general does not take the business of studying very seriously. Schoolchildren have a great deal of free time, which they are encouraged to fill with extracurricular activities—sports, clubs, cheerleading, scouts—supposed to inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship, ability to organize, etc. those who don’t become engaged in such activities or have afterschool jobs have plenty of opportunity to “hang out”, listen to teenager music, and watch television.

Compared to other nations, American students do not have much homework. Studies also show that American parents have lower expectations for their children’s success in school than other nationalities do. (Historically, there has not been much correlation between American school success and success in later life.) “He’s just not a scholar”, the American parents might say, content that their son is on the swim team and doesn’t take drugs. (Some of the young do choose to study hard, for reason of their own, such as determining that the road to riches lies through Harvard Business School.)

What American schools do effectively teach is the competitive method. In innumerable ways children are pitted against each other—whether in classroom discussion, spelling bees, reading groups, or tests. Every classroom is expected to produce a scattering of A’s and F’s (teachers often grade A=excellent; B=good; C=average; D=poor; and F=failed). A teacher who gives all A’s looks too soft—so students are aware that they are competing for the limited number of top marks.

Foreign students sometimes don’t understand that copying from other people’s papers or from books is considered wrong and taken seriously. Here, it is important to show that you have done your own work and are displaying your own knowledge. It is more important than helping your friends to pass, whom we think do not deserve to pass unless they can provide their own answers. Group effort goes against the competitive grain, and American students do not study together as many Asians do. Many Asians in this country consider their group study habits a large contributor to their school success.

7. Adult Education

After complaining about many aspects of American life, a 40-year-old woman from Hong Kong concluded, “But where else could someone my age go back to school and get a degree in social work? Here you can change your whole life, start a new business, do what you really want to do.”

So at least to this person, school requirements weren’t inhibiting. And to millions of others, adult education is the path to a new career, or if not to a new career, to a new outlook. Schools generally encourage the older person who wants to start anew, and besides regular classes, schedule evening classes in special programs. Today there are so many people of retirement age in college that it is no longer remarkable.

8. Moral Relativism in American

Improving American education requires not doing new things but doing (and remembering) some good old things. At the time of our nation’s founding, Thomas Jefferson listed the requirements for a sound education in the Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia. In this landmark statement on American education, Jefferson wrote of the importance of education and writing, and of reading history, and geography. But he also emphasized the need “to instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests, and duties, as men and citizens.” Jefferson believed education should aim at the improvement of both one’s “morals” and “faculties”. That has been the dominant view of the aims of American education for over two centuries. But a number of changes, most of them unsound, have diverted schools from these great pursuits. And the story of the loss of the school’s original moral mission explains a great deal.

Starting in the early seventies, “values clarification” programs started turning up in schools all over America. According to this philosophy, the schools were not to take part in their time-honored task of transmitting sound moral values; rather, they were to allow the child to “clarify” his own values (which adults, including parents, had no “rights” to criticize). The “values clarification” movement didn’t clarify values; it clarified wants and desires. This form of moral relativism said, in effect, that no set of values was right or wrong; everybody had an equal right to his own values; and all values were subjective, relative, and personal. This destructive view took hold with a vengeance.

In 1985 The York Times published an article quoting New York area educators, in slavish devotion to this new view, proclaiming, “They deliberately avoid trying to tell students what is ethically right and wrong.” The article told of one counseling session involving fifteen high school juniors and seniors. In the course of that session a student concluded that a fellow student had been foolish to return one thousand dollars she found in a purse at school. According to the article, when the youngsters asked the counselor’s opinion, “He told them he believed the girl had done the right thing, but that, of course, he would not try to force his values on them. ‘If I come from the position of what is wrong,’ he explained, ‘then I’m not their counselor.’”

Once upon a time, a counselor offered counselor, and he knew that an adult does not form character in the young by taking a stance of neutrality toward questions of right and wrong or by merely offering “choices” or “options”.

In response to the belief that adults and educators should teach children sound morals, one can expect from some quarters indignant objections (I’ve heard one version of it expressed countless times over the years): “Who are you to say what’s important?” or “Whose standards and judgments do we use?”

The correct response, it seems to me, is, is we ready to do away with standards and judgments? Is anyone going to argue seriously that a life of cheating and swindling is as worthy as a life of honest, hard work? Is anyone (with the exception of some literature professors at our elite universities) going to argue seriously the intellectual corollary, that a Marvel comic book is as good as Macbeth? Unless we are willing to embrace some pretty silly position, we’ve got to admit the need for moral and intellectual standards. The problem is that some people tend to regard anyone who would pronounce a definitive judgment as an unsophisticated Philistine or a closed-minded “elitist” trying to impose his view on everybody else.

The truth of the real world is that without standards and judgments, there can be no progress. Unless we are prepared to say irrational things—that nothing can be proven more valuable than anything else or that everything is equally worthless—we must ask the normative question. It may come, as a surprise to those who fell that to be “progressive” is to be value-neutral. But as Matthew Amold said, “the world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things” and if the world can’t decide what the best things are, at least to some degree, then it follows that progress, and character, is in trouble. We shouldn’t be reluctant to declare that some things, some lives, books, ideas, and values are better than others. It is the responsibility of the schools to teach these better things.

At one time, we weren’t so reluctant to teach them. In the mid-nineteenth century, a diverse, widespread group of crusaders began to work for the public support of what was then called the “common school”, the forerunner of the public school. They were to be charged with the mission of school felt that the nation could fulfill its destiny only if every new generation was taught these values together in a common institution.

The leaders of the common school movement were mainly citizens who were prominent in their communities—businessmen, ministers, local civic and government officials. These people saw the schools as upholders of standards of individual morality and small incubators of civic and personal virtue; the founders of the public schools had faith that public education could teach good moral and civic character from a common ground of American values.

But in the past quarter century or so, some of the so-called experts became experts of value neutrality, and moral education was increasingly left in their hands. The commonsense view of parents and the publicthat schools should reinforce rather than undermine the values of home, family, and country, was increasingly rejected.

There are those today still that claim we are now too diverse a nation, that we consist of too many competing convictions and interests to instill common values. They are wrong. Of course we are a diverse people. We have always been a diverse people. And as Madison wrote in FederalistNo.10, the competing, balancing interests of a diverse people can help ensure the survival of liberty. But there are values that all American citizens share and that we should want all American students to know and to make their own: honesty, fairness, self-discipline, fidelity to task, friends, and family, personal responsibility, love of country, and belief in the principles of liberty, equality, and the freedom to practice one’s faith. The explicit teaching of these values is the legacy of the common schools, and it is a legacy to which we must return.

9. Schools Should Teach Values

People often said, “Yes, we should teach these values, but how do we teach them?” this question deserves a candid response, one that isn’t given often enough. It is by exposing our children to good character and inviting its imitation that we will transmit to them a moral foundation. This happens when teachers and principals, by their words and actions, embody sound convictions. As Oxford’s Mary Warnock has written, “You cannot teach morality without being committed to morality yourself; and you cannot be committed to morality yourself without holding that some things are right and others wrong.” The theologian Martin Buber wrote that the educator is distinguished from all other influences “by his will to take part in the stamping of character and by his consciousness that he represents in the eyes of the growing person a certain selection of what is, the selection of what is ‘right’, of what should be.” It is in this will, Buber says, in this clear standing for something, that the “vocation as an educator finds its fundamental expression.”

There is no escaping the fact that young people need as example principals and teachers who know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and who themselves exemplify high moral purpose.

As Education Secretary, I visited a class at Waterbury Elementary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and asked the students, “Is this a good school?” They answered, “Yes, this is a good school.” I asked them, “Why?” Among other things, one eight-year-old said, “The principal Mr. Riegel, makes good rules and everybody obeys them.” So I said, “Give me an example.” And another answered, “You can’t climb on the pipes in the bathroom. We don’t climb on the pipes and the principal doesn’t either.”

This example is probably too simple to please a lot of people who want to make the topic of moral education difficult, but there is something profound in the answer of those children, something education should pay more attention to. You can’t expect children to take messages about rules or morality seriously unless they see adults taking those rules seriously in their day-to-day affairs. Certain must be said, certain limits lay down, and certain examples set. There is no other way.

We should also do a better job at curriculum selection. The research shows that most “values education” exercises and separate courses in “moral reasoning” tend not to affect children’s behavior; if anything, they may leave children morally adrift. Where to turn? I believe our literature and our history are a rich quarry of moral literacy. We should mine that quarry. Children should have at their disposal a stock of examples illustrating what we believe to be right and wrong, good and bad—examples illustrating what are morally right and wrong can indeed be known and that there is a difference.

What kind of stories, historical events, and famous lives am I talking about? If we want our children to know about honesty, we should teach them about Abe Lincoln walking three miles to return six cents and conversely, about Aesop’s shepherd boy who cried wolf if we want them to know about courage, we should teach them about Joan of Arc, Horatius at the bridge, and Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. If we want them to know about persistence in the face of adversity, they should know about the voyages of Columbus and the character of Washington during the Civil War. And our youngest should be told about the Little Engine That Could. If we want them to know about respect for the law, they should understand why Socrates told Crito: “No, I must submit to the decree of Athens.” If we want our children to respect the rights of others, they should read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’ “Letter from Birmingham jail.” From the Bible they should know about Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi, Joseph’s forgiveness of his brothers, Jonathan’s friendship with David, the Good Samaritan’s kindness toward a stranger, and David’s cleverness and courage in facing Goliath.

These are only a few of the hundreds of examples we can call on. And we need not get into issues like nuclear war, abortion, creationism, or euthanasia. This may come as a disappointment to some people, but the fact is that the formation of character in young people is educationally a task different from, and prior to, the discussion of the great, difficult controversies of the day. First things come first. We should teach values the same way we teach other things: one step at a time. We should not use the fact that there are many difficult and controversial moral questions as an argument against basic instruction in the subject.

After all, we do not argue against teaching physics because laser physics is difficult, against teaching American history because there are heated disputes about the Founders’ intent. Every field has its complexities and its controversies. And every field has its basics, its fundamentals. So they are too with forming character and achieving moral literacy. As any parent knows, teaching character is a difficult task. But it is a crucial task, because we want our children to be healthy, happy, and successful but decent, strong, and good. None of this happens automatically; there is no genetic transmission of virtue. It takes the conscious, committed efforts of adults. It takes careful attention.

10. College Pressures

Mainly I try to remind that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think. There will be plenty of time to change jobs, change careers, change whole attitudes and approaches. They don not want to hear such liberating news. They want a map—right now – that they can follow unswervingly to career security, financial security, Social Security and, presumably, a prepaid grave.

What I wish for all students is some release from the clammy grip of the future. I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step. I wish them the right to experiment, to trip and fall, to learn that defeat is as instructive as victory and is not the end of the world.

My wish, of course, is na?ve. One of the national gods venerated in our media—the million-dollar athlete, the wealthy executive—and glorified in our praise of possessions. In the presence of such a potent state religion, the young are growing up old.

I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. It is easy to look around for villains—to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the professors for assigning too much work, the parents for pushing their children too far, and the students for driving themselves too hard. But there are no villains: only victims.

“In the late 1960s.” one dean told me. “The typical question that I got from students was ‘Why is there so much suffering in the world’ or ‘how I can make a contribution?’ Today it’s ‘Do you think it would look better for getting into law school if I did a double major in history and political science, or just majored in one of them?’” many other deans confirmed this pattern. One said: “They are trying to find an edge—the intangible something that will look better on paper if two students are about equal.”

Note the emphasis on looking better. The transcript has become a sacred document, the passport to security. How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person. A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means “excellent” and B means “very good.” Today, looking very good is no longer good enough, especially for students who hope to go on to law school or medical school. They know that entrance into the better schools will be an entrance into the better law firms and better medical practices where they will make a lot of money. They also know that the odds are harsh. Yale Law School, for instance, matriculates 170students from an applicant pool of 3,700; Harvard enrolls 550 from a pool of 7,000.

It’s all very well for those of us who write letters of recommendation for our students to stress the qualities of humanity that will make them good lawyers or doctors. And it’s nice to think that admission officers are ready reading our letters and looking for the extra dimension of commitment or concern. Still, it would be hard for a student not to visualize these officers shuffling so many transcripts studded with As that they regard a B as positively shameful.

The pressure is almost as heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. Long gone are the days of the “gentleman’s C.” when students journeyed through college with a certain relaxation, sampling a wide variety of courses-music, art, philosophy, classics, anthropology, poetry, religion—that would send them out as liberally educated men and women. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know countless students whose inquiring minds exhilarate me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I do not know if they are getting As or Cs, and I do not care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax. They cannot.

Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Tuition, room, and board at most private colleges now come to at least $7,000, not counting books and fees. This might seem to suggest that the colleges are getting rich. But they are equally battered by inflation. Tuition covers only 60 percent of what it costs to educate a student, and ordinarily the remainder comes from what college receives in endowments, grants, and gifts. Now, the remainder keeps being swallowed by the cruel costs—higher every year—of just opening the doors. Heating oil is up. Insurance is up. Postage is up. Health-premium costs are up. Everything is up. Deficits are up. We are witnessing in American the creation of a brotherhood of paupers—colleges, parents, and students, joined by the common bond of debt.

Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to accrue $5,000 in loans after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation. Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning? I have used “he,” incidentally, only for brevity. Women at Yale are under no less pressure to justify their expensive education to themselves, their parents, and society. In fact, they are probably under more pressure. For although they leave college superbly equipped to bring fresh leadership to traditionally male jobs, society has not yet caught up with this fact.

Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply intertwined.

I see many students taking pre-medical courses with joyless tenacity. They go off to their labs as if they were going to the dentist. It saddens me because I know tem in other corners of their life as cheerful people.

“Do you want to medical school?” I asked them.

“I guess so,” they say, without conviction, or “Not really.”

“Then why are you going?”

“Well, my parents want me to be a doctor. They are paying all this money and …”

Poor students, poor parents, they are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean will; they are trying to steer their sons and draughts toward a secure future. But the sons and daughter want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics—an ability to synthesize and relate, to weigh cause and effect, to see events in perspective—are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field. Still, many fathers would rather put their money on courses that point toward specific profession—courses that are pre-law, pre-medical, pre-business, or, as I sometimes heard it put, “pre-rich.”

But the pressure on students is severe. They are truly torn. One part of them feels obliged to fulfill their parents’ expectations; after all, their parents are older and presumably wiser. Another part tells them that the expectations that are right for their parents are not right for them.

I know a student who wants to be an artist. She is very obviously an artist and will be a good one—she has already had several modest local exhibits. Meanwhile she is growing as a well-round person and taking humanistic subjects that will enrich the inner resources out of which her art will grow. But her father is strongly opposed. He thinks that an artist is a “dumb” thing to be. The student vacillates and tries to please everybody. She keeps up with her art somewhat furtively and takes some of the “dumb” courses her father wants her to take—at least they are dumb courses for her. She is a free spirit on a campus of tense students—no small achievement in it—and she deserves to follow her muse.

Peer pressure and self-induced pressure are also intertwined, and they begin almost at the beginning of freshman year.

“I had a freshman student I’ll call Linda,” one dean told me, “who came in and said she was under terrible pressure because her roommate, Barbara, was much brighter and studied all the time. I could not tell her that Barbara had come in two hours earlier to say the same thing about Linda.”

The story is almost funny—except that it is not. It is symptomatic of all the pressure put together. When every student thinks every other student is working harder and doing better, the only solution is to study harder still. I see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight. I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie. I hear the clacking of typewriters in the hours before dawn. I see the tension in their eyes when exams are approaching and papers are due: “Will I get everything done?”

Probably they won’t. They will get blocked. They will sleep. They will oversleep. They will bug out.

Part of the problem is that they are expected to do. A professor will assign five page papers. Several students will start writing ten page papers to impress him. Then more students will write ten page papers, and a few will raise the ante to fifteen. Pity the poor student who is still just doing the assignment.

“Once you have twenty or thirty percent of the student population deliberately overexerting,” one dean points out, “It’s bad for everybody. When a teacher gets more and more effort from his class, the student who is doing normal work can be perceived as not doing well. The tactic work, psychologically.”

Why cannot the professor just cut back and not accept longer papers? He can, and he probably will. But by then the term will be half over and the damage done. Grade fever is highly contagious and not easily reversed. Besides, the professor’s main concern is with his course. He knows his students only in relation to the course and does not know that they are also overexerting in their other courses. Nor is it really his business. He did not sign up for dealing with the student as a whole person and with all the emotional baggage the student brought along from home. That’s what deans, masters, chaplains, and psychiatrists are for.

To some extent this is nothing new: a certain number of professors have always been self-contained islands of scholarship and shyness, more comfortable with books than with people. But the new pauperism has widened the gap still further, for professors who actually like to spend time with students do not have as much time to spend. They are also overexerting. If they are young, they are busy trying to publish in order not to perish, hanging by their figure nails onto a shrinking profession.

If they are old and tenured, they are buried under the duties of administering departments—as departmental chairmen or members of committees—that have been thinned out by the budgetary axe.

Ultimately it will be the students’ own business to break the circles in which they are trapped. They are too young to be prisoners of their parents’ dreams and their classmates’ fears. They must be jolted into believing into themselves as unique men and women who have the power to shape their own future.

“Violence is being done to the undergraduate experience,” says Carlos Hortas. “College should be open-ended: at the end it should open many, many roads. Instead, students are choosing their goal in advance, and their choices narrow as they go along. It’s almost as if they think that the country has been codified in the type of jobs that exist-that they’ve got to fit into certain slots. Therefore, fit into the best paying slot.”

“They ought to take chances. Not taking chances will lead to life of colorless mediocrity. They’ll be comfortable. But something in the spirit will be missing.”

I have painted too drab a portrait of today’s students, making them seem a solemn lot. That is only half of their story; if they were so dreary I wouldn’t so thoroughly enjoy their company. The other half is that they are easy to like. They are quick to laugh and to offer friendship. They are not introverts. They are usually kind and are more considerate of one another than any student generation I have known.

Nor are they so obsessed with their studies that they avoid sports and extracurricular activities. On the contrary, they juggle their crowded hours to play on a variety of teams, perform with musical and dramatic groups, and write for campus publications. But this in turn is one more cause of anxiety. There are too many choices. Academically, they have 1,300 courses to select from; outside class they have to decide how much spare time they can spare and how to spend it.

This means that they engage in fewer extracurricular pursuits than their predecessors did. If they want to row on the crew and play in the symphony they will eliminate one; in the ‘60s they would have done both. They also tend to choose activities that are self-limiting. Drama, for instance, is flourishing in all twelve of Yale’s residential colleges, as it never has before. Students hurl themselves into these productions—as actors, directors, carpenters, and technicians—with a dedication to create the best possible play, knowing that the day will come when the run will end and they can get back to their studies.

They also cannot afford to be the willing slave of organizations like the Yale Daily News. Last spring at the one-hundredth anniversary banquet of that paper—who’s past chairmen include such once and future kings as Potter Stewart, Kingman Brewster, and William F. Buckley, Jr.—much was made of the fact that the editorial staff used to be small and totally committed and that “newsies” routinely worked fifty hours a week. In effect they belonged to a club; Newsies is how they defined themselves at Yale. Today’s students will one or two articles a week, when he can, and he defines himself as a student. I’ve never heard the word Newsie except at the banquet.

If I have described the modern undergraduate primarily as a driven creature who is largely ignoring the blithe spirit inside who keeps trying to come out and play, it’s because that’s where the crunch is, not only at Yale but throughout American education. It’s why I think we should all be worried about the values that are nurturing a generation so fearful of risk and so goal-obsessed at such an early age.

I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead—that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell neither them that change is a tonic and that all the slots are not codified nor the frontiers closed. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. They are heads of companies or ad agencies, editors of magazines, politicians, public officials, television magnates, labor leaders, business executives, Broadway products, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians—a mixed bag of achievers.

I asked them to say a few words about how they got started. The students assume that they started in their present profession and knew all along that it was what they wanted to do. Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by a circuitous route, to their surprise, after many detours. The students are startled. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not pre-planned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.

11. To Err Is Wrong

In the summer of 1979, Boston Red Sox first baseman Carl Yastrzemski became the fifteenth player in baseball history to reach the three thousand hit plateaus. This event drew a lot of media attention, and for about a week prior to the attainment of this goal, hundreds of reports covered Yaz’s every more. Finally, one reporter asked, “Hey Yaz, aren’t you afraid all of this attention will go to your head?” Yastrzemski replied, “I look at this way: in my career I’ve been up to bat over ten thousand times. That means I’ve been unsuccessful at the plate over seven thousand times. That fact alone keeps me from getting a swollen head.”?

Most people consider success and failure as opposites, but they are actually both products of the same process. As Yaz suggest, an activity that produces a hit may also produce a miss. It is the same with creative thinking; the same energy that generates good creative ideas also produces errors.

Many people, however, are not comfortable with errors. Our educational system, based on “the right answer” belief, cultivates our thinking in another, more conservative way. From an early age, we are taught that right answers are good and incorrect answers are bad. This value is deeply embedded in the incentive system used in most schools:

Right over 90% of the time = “A”

Right over 80% of the time = “B~”

Right over 70% of the time = “C~” Right over 60% of the time = “D~” Less than 60% correct, you fail.

From this we learn to be right as often as possible and to keep our mistakes to a minimum. We learn, in other words, that “to err is wrong.

Playing It Safe

With this kind of attitude, you aren’t going to be taking too many chances. If you learn that failing even a litter penalizes you (e.g., being wrong only 15% of the time garners you only a “B” performance), you learn not to make mistakes. And more important, you learn not to put yourself to situation where you might fall. This leads to conservative thought pattern designed to avoid the stigma our society puts on “failure”.

I have a friend who recently graduated from college with a Master’s degree in Journalism. For the last six month, she has been trying to find a job, but to no avail. I talked with her about situation, and realized that her problem is that she doesn’t know how to fail. She went through eighteen years of schooling to try any approaches where she might fail. She has been conditioned to believe that failure is bad in and of itself, rather than a potential stepping-stone to new ideas.

Look around. How many middle managers, housewives, administrators, teachers, and other people do you see who are to try anything new because of this failure? Most of us have learned not to make mistakes in public. As a result, we remove ourselves from many learning experience except for those occurring in the most private of circumstances.

Different Logic

From a practical point of view, “to err is wrong” makes sense. Our survival in the everyday world requires us to perform thousand of small tasks without failure. Think about it: you wouldn’t last very long if you were to step out in front of traffic or stick your hand a pot of boiling water. In addition, engineers whose bridges collapse, stock brokers who lose money for their clients, and copywriters whose ad campaigns decrease sales won’t keep their jobs very long.

Nevertheless, too great an adherence to the belief “to err is wrong” can greatly undermine your attempts to generate new ideas. If you are more concerned with producing right answers than generating original ideas, you’ll probably make uncritical use of the rules, formulae, and procedures used to obtain these right answers. By doing this, you’ll by-pass the germinal phase of the creative process, and thus spend litter time testing assumptions, challenging the rules, asking what-if questions, or just playing around with the problem. All of these techniques will produce some incorrect answers, but in the germinal phase errors are viewed as a necessary by-product of creative thinking. As Yaz would put it, “if you want the hits, be prepared for the misses.” That’s the way the game of life goes.

Errors as Stepping Stones

Whenever an error pops up, the usual response is “Jeez, another screw up, what went wrong this time?” the creative thinker, on the other hand, will realize the potential value of errors, and perhaps say something like, “Would you look at that! Where can it lead our thinking?” and then he or she will go on to use the error as a stepping stone to a new idea. As a matter of fact, the whole history of discovery is filed with people who used erroneous assumptions and failed ideas as stepping-stones to new ideas. Columbus thought he was finding a shorter route to India. Johannes Kepler stumbled on to the idea of interplanetary gravity because of assumptions that were right for the wrong reasons. And, Thomas Edison knew 1800 ways not to build a light bulb.

The following story about the automotive genius Charles Kettering exemplifies the spirit of working through erroneous assumptions to good ideas. In 1912, when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow, Kettering was interested in improving gasoline engine efficiency. The problem he faced was“knockthe phenomenon in which gasoline takes too long to burn in the cylinder-thereby reducing efficiency.

Kettering began searching for ways to eliminate the “knock.” He thought to him, “How can I get the gasoline to combust in the cylinder at an earlier time?” the key concept here is “early”. Searching for analogous situations, he looked around for models of “things that happen early.” He thought of historical models, physical models, and biological models. Finally, he remembered a particular plant, the trailing arbutus, which “happens early,” i.e., it blooms in the snow (“earlier” than other plants). One of this plant’s chief characteristics is its’ red leaves, which help the plant retain light at certain wavelengths. Kettering figured that it must be the red color, which made the trailing arbutus bloom earlier.

Now came the critical step in Kettering’s chain of thought. He asked himself, “How can I make the gasoline red?” perhaps I’ll put red dye in the gasoline—maybe that’ll make it combust earlier.” He looked around his workshop, and found that he didn’t have any red dye. But he did happen to have some iodine—perhaps that would do. He added the iodine to the gasoline and, lo and behold, the engine didn’t “knock”.

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每个人都有自己的发现，当然我也不例外。通过这几次考试，我又有力一个新的发现，那就是：成功需要自信。

人人都渴望成功。我也希望成功。但成功最需要的是什么呢？是勤奋，是能力，还是好的方法？或者是环境，是机遇吗？这些都不是成功必备的条件。在这几次考试后，我更加留心观察我的同学，终于发现成功最需要的是自信，它才是成功首要的条件。

我的同桌经常说：自信是成功的第一秘诀！开始，我还不相信，现在看来不得不信了。确实，自信是成功的动力。有自信才会为成功而奋斗，因为自信是对自己能力的充分相信与认识，相信自己就一定会成功。试想，一个人如果自暴自弃，一蹶不振，或悲观自卑，连起码的自信心都没有，一切还未开始，就觉得自己不行，这样成功道路上的拦路虎还未来，自己就已经被自己的不自信所吓倒，还如何谈成功呢？

自信是战胜一切困难的法宝，不论成功者还是失败者都承认成功的道路不是坦途，路上充满了艰难，阻险。奋斗中，很多人被暂时打败了还要闯进去，并最终取得成功。成功者与失败者之间最大的区别就在于有无信心。没有信心的人一旦遇到了困难就没有了战胜他的勇气，斗志自然就会大减。这时要想获得成功真是难上加难不。而且这种人一旦失败，就会自暴自弃，一蹶不振。严格说起来这种人很大的程度上就是被自己打垮的。

再看充满信心的人，他们不管情况多么不利，都会始终保持着十分的信心，失败了重整旗数，再去努力。人们都知道这一样一个故事：一个将军打了六次败仗，当他在山洞里闷闷不乐时，看见蜘蛛在结网，结了七次才成功，将军很受鼓舞，率兵再次出战，终获大胜。人们都知道这是一个教育人做事要有耐心的故事，我觉得的这个故事也同样说明了用有自信心才会成功。因为战败了六次已灰心，若不是蜘蛛结网给了他自信，他又何来再战的信心呢？

我们还要谨记：自信不是自负，自负不但不会帮助你走向成功，还会适得其反。

因此，只有相信自己的实力，善于观察，善于汲取生活中的能量，我们的明天才会更加灿烂与辉煌。

我们要谨记一句名言：自信是成功的第一秘诀！

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I was having a word with one of my friend today and during whole conversation, I felt that he lacked on one point and that was self confidence. All the way, he was comparing himself from those people who were successful in his field of work, people around him. And he was just keeping himself “low” from them.

Well, it’s the self confidence which can make and break things. This thing applies in blogging too. Feel confident about the things you do and don’t just think that because other’s are doing well, then you are any less than them. You are equally good and it’s only you who can realize that where exactly you are good.

Here are few things which you should follow when you are losing self confidence :

1. Stop thinking that what other are achieving : Instead think that what is making them achieve that success and then work on those areas and try to gain that same success.

2. Think on the lines, where you are lacking but don’t make them the hurdle in your success : Instead, think that how you can improve on those weak points. No body is perfect and no one will ever be, so if you do lack somewhere, you just have to think that do you really lack or do other are making you feel that. If at all you think that yes, you do lack in a particular area, then go ahead and work on it.

3. Improve the areas where you have the mastery : Again, no one is perfect and there is always a scope of improvement and by talking to various people in that niche, you’ll only gain knowledge and will be able to know more in that field. So talk to your fellow bloggers, and see how they do things differently and how they blog, I’m sure you’ll learn something new than what you already know.

4. Teach someone in that niche : When you’ll talk to someone in that niche who is still new, then you’ll be able to share those things which you already know and that way your confidence level will increase, because you’ll realize that you know much more than others and that will give enormous amount of confidence.

5. Success is what you feel with in : Well, its all about setting the standards. Everyone knows what he or she is capable of but just because you get influenced with someone, you start to feel that you are not successful. Instead think that what you’ve achieved and start to feel good about it.

Again there is a very think line between self confidence and over confidence. Feel confident about things you’ve achieved but don’t be over confident and don’t think that anyone is less than you. You can’t know each and everything but you can be good in many areas and sharing things will only make you better. So, never feel that you are any less than anyone else and never let others think that you are any less than them.

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有一位歌手，大家现在可能对他并不陌生，他还没有出名的时候不知道受到了多少音乐人的嘲笑和白眼，好几次想放弃不再做音乐创作，因为他付出太多而收获却太少，他为了给自己挽回面子，十年执着地坚持自己的专业，最后到了2000年以一首《黄昏》而走红大江南北，写到这里我不用说大家都知道是谁了!他就是现在台湾当红歌星周传雄(小刚)。也许我们往往想到的是一个人成功的光环，而不知道他们背后默默付出的艰辛，今天我写这个情歌王子的故事是源于去年看凤凰卫视的《鲁豫有约》，嘉宾就是周传雄，这是他自己亲口说的，出名后的他更激发了这个音乐才子的潜能，2000年到现在更是好歌不断。象我喜欢的《记事本》《我难过》《男人·海洋》《伤心酒杯》等都是他作的词，如果说没有小刚的执着就没有小刚的今天，那我们就欣赏不到小刚的好音乐。

我村里也有一个执着的人，离我家50米远。前些年我在家的时候知道他一个人种了十多亩田地，有时候和他聊天，我说你干嘛种那么多田呢，人家给你种的田就不要了，这样会累坏的，而他用平和的语气对我说，反正我还吃得消，可是他一家三口人，一个小儿子，一个有点精神病的老婆，虽然种那么多田，可是他缺少管理，田里的粮食都产值不高，除了肥料，农药钱也就够自己吃，没有太多的剩粮，领着低保过日子。到了现在由于党的好政策，免去了公购粮，而且每种一亩田能补到100多元，管理又上去了，收成多了，日子要比以前好得多。

他一个人能种那么多田也是源于他的执着，要是象我们一般的人能种十多亩吗?不会吓出一身病来才怪。

对于每个人来说执着是好事，生活中还很多人都做不到执着，一遇到风雨就放弃。人生其实不要怕遇到风雨，怕的是在风雨中放弃自我。只要锲而不舍，坚守信念加执着，相信每个人都会离成功越来越近。

执着对于还未成功的人来说是最好的基石。